” Leading up to Independence Day, the Gallup polling agency reached out to Americans in an effort to gauge patriotism throughout the Nation. According to the results of a patriotic survey, 71 percent of the Nation’s citizens believe that the signers of the Declaration of Independence would be ashamed of America today.”

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Reblogged this on aurorawatcherak and commented:
Given what my major theme is at the moment, I think this is appropriate. I suspect Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson would be confused and then excited by all the new technologies, but they would be quite ashamed that we don’t seem to care about what they risked their “lives, fortunes and sacred honor” to create.